Mr Owen George Allum, 18, was born in 1894, the son of William Allum, his birth was registered in Falmouth, Cornwall. He had a sister, Chloe.

As a young man he worked as a 'telegraph boy' for the local post office.

By 1912 he was a gardener living at 22 Oswald Road, Southall, London, he had also lived at 7 Gerrold Villas, Vansittart, Windsor, Berkshire. He embarked the Titanic at Southampton and was travelling in third class (ticket number 1223, £8 1s) bound for New York City to meet up with his father.

Allum was lost in the sinking, his body was recovered by the Mackay-Bennett and taken to Boston on 4 May 1912.

Owen George Allum was born in a village called Mabe near Falmouth, Cornwall in 1894. His father, William Allum (b.1865 Bray, Berkshire) was a gardener by occupation who had married Clara Alice Eggleton (b.1867 Jersey, CI) at Wokingham, Berkshire in 1888. Their first child, Stewart was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1889.

Shortly following his birth the family moved from Berkshire to Cornwall and settled at Mabe where William Allum continued to work as a gardener.

Towards the end of 1892 their second child, Chloe was born, followed in 1894 by Owen and in 1898 by Grace Alice.

Sometime following Grace's birth the family moved away from Cornwall and settled at Chislehurst in Kent where they may be found on the 1901 UK census.